SonicWall is a cybersecurity forerunner with more than 30 years of expertise and is recognized as a leading partner-first company, ensuring our partners and their customers are never alone in the fight against cybercrime. With the ability to build, scale and manage security across the cloud, hybrid and traditional environments in real-time, SonicWall provides relentless security against the most evasive cyberattacks across endless exposure points for increasingly remote, mobile and cloud-enabled users. With its own threat research center, SonicWall can quickly and economically provide purpose-built security solutions to enable any organization—enterprise, government agencies and SMBs—around the world. For more information, visit www.sonicwall.com or follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook and Instagram.

Role Overview

We are seeking a Distinguished Engineer - AI Architect to pioneer the intelligence layer of our next-generation security platform. In this role, you will be the ultimate technical authority on our AI strategy,



defining how we use machine learning and large language models to reason over complex security telemetry, unstructured logs, and customer network configurations.

As part of a lean Data & AI team, you will design the overarching AI runtime architecture, implement state-of-the-art reasoning frameworks, and establish the strict guardrails required to deliver safe, highly accurate, and deterministic AI capabilities within a mission-critical cybersecurity setting.

Key Responsibilities

Define the AI System Architecture: Architect the blueprint for our AI runtime, including agentic workflows, complex Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems, and multi-modal reasoning engines optimized for complex technical data.
Lead Modeling & Fine-Tuning Strategy: Set the technical direction for model selection, domain-specific fine-tuning (SLMs/LLMs), and embedding strategies tailored to interpret network behaviors, security schemas, and configuration st

📌 Distinguished Engineer – AI/ML (Pune)
🏢 SonicWall SLED
📍 Pune